Quotes by Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

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Consciousness

Ecology

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Animal

Environmental

Plant

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

Animal

Eggs

Self

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Ancestry

Extinction

Groups

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement… Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

Loss

Population

Wings

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

Details

Energy

Sexuality

Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

Order

Self

Years

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Arrogance

Discipline

Humanity

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly.

Butterfly

Caterpillars

Looks

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Earth

Evolution

Tree

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Accumulation

Ancestry

Animal

Arrogance

Blood

Body

Butterfly

Cash Flow

Caterpillars

Cells

Cities

Community

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Consciousness

Details

Differences

Discipline

Doe

Earth

Ecology

Eggs

Energy

Environmental

Evolution

Extinction

Fewer

Fire

Groups

Honesty

Humanity

Ideas

Issues

Knows

Landscape

Looks

Loss

Moving

Mutation

Natural

Natural Selection

Order

Oxygen

Passion

People

Plant

Population

Powerful

Responsibility

Ridiculous

Running

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Quotes by Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

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